Charles Mingus: Changes – The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings

CD 1

1. Canon
2. Opus 4
3. Moves
4. Wee
5. Flowers for a lady
6. Newcomer
7. Opus 3
8. Big Alice (take 1)
9. The call (take 1)

CD 2

1. Remember Rockefeller at attica
2. Sue’s changes
3. Devil blues
4. Duke Ellington’s sound of love

CD 3

1. Free cell block F, ’tis Nazi U.S.A.
2. Orange was the color of her dress, then silk blue
3. Black bats and poles
4. Duke Ellington’s sound of love
5. For Harry Carney

CD 4

1. Better git hit in your soul
2. Goodbye, porkpie hat
3. Noddin ya head blues
4. Three or four shades of blues
5. Nobody knows

CD 5

1. Cumbia & jazz fusion
2. Music for ‘todo modo’
3. Music for ‘todo modo’ (take 1)

CD 6

1. Three worlds of drums
2. Devil woman
3. Wednesday night prayer meeting
4. Carolyn ‘Keki’ Mingus

CD 7

1. Something like a bird part 1
2. Something like a bird part 2
3. Farewell farwell

*digitally remastered

in 1973, Atlantic Records began its second recording period with Mingus, which resulted in seven studio albums. The story of a new phase in Mingus’ music – his final phase – begins with the recordings in this box set. All configurations of the album, which contains his entire 1970s output for Atlantic Records, include previously unreleased outtakes of “Big Alice,” “The Call” and “Music For Todo Modo.” There is also an additional set of takes from “Big Alice” and “The Call” on an outtakes disc exclusive to the vinyl format.

The set includes newly remastered versions of all seven studio albums Mingus recorded for Atlantic in the 1970s. The LP and CD versions include “Mingus Moves” (1973), “Changes One” (1974), “Changes Two” (1974), “Three or Four Shades of Blues” (1977), “Cumbia & Jazz Fusion” (1977), “Me, Myself an Eye” (1979) and “Something Like a Bird” (1979).

“Changes” comes with an illustrated booklet detailing the final years of Mingus’ music with extensive liner notes by Andrew Homzy, a musician, arranger, jazz scholar and Grammy® Award nominee.

Five previously unreleased recordings are included in the new collection. The CD version includes three outtakes, “Big Alice,” “The Call,” and “Music for ‘Todo Modo.'” The LP version includes these recordings plus additional unreleased takes of “Big Alice” and “The Call,” which are exclusive to the vinyl set.